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arxiv: hep-th/9906156 · v2 · submitted 1999-06-20 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat

Reparametrization Invariance of Path Integrals

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat
keywords integralsinvariancepathreparametrizationfunctionalabsentauthorscompensating
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We demonstrate the reparametrization invariance of perturbatively defined one-dimensional functional integrals up to the three-loop level for a path integral of a quantum-mechanical point particle in a box. We exhibit the origin of the failure of earlier authors to establish reparametrization invariance which led them to introduce, superfluously, a compensating potential depending on the connection of the coordinate system. We show that problems with invariance are absent by defining path integrals as the epsilon-> 0 -limit of 1+ epsilon -dimensional functional integrals.

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